Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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E-commerce and Retail
Plurro is Bringing the Cash Mob to Your Local Retail Business
There have been some serious holes found in the group discounting industry that haven’t been overcome yet. Complaints from businesses utilizing Groupon and LivingSocial have pointed to several issues: The required discounts are so steep that it hurts the businesses. The payment on the discount doesn’t come immediately, causing severe cashflow issues that have buried some businesses. The consumers that…
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Marketing Infographics
Customer Survey Burnout
Surveys are a critical method for capturing key information on your prospects and customers, but they can also be a tool that’s misused and provides data that drives your business in the wrong direction. As a simple example, if I were a business and asked how I could improve my website, I’m already setting an expectation with the person taking…
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Analytics & Testing
Stipple: Intelligent and Interactive Images
What if you could post images to your website or blog, make them interactive, and have the usage and tagging travel with them as they are copied from your site and saved to another? You can do this now with Stipple. Stipple also enables usage information via their analytics package. Mouseover the image below to see Stipple in action! You…
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Marketing Infographics
The History of Sales Technology
We recently posted the Evolution of the Salesperson and now we get a look at how sales technology has enabled advancements in sales methodologies. From Lattice Engines Infographic, The History of Sale Technology: Sales professionals have always had the opportunity to work with different tools, techniques and processes to help them become better, smarter sellers. We thought it would be…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
LinkedIn Requests: The Social Media Rules Police Strike Again!
For as long as people have known me, I’ve been railing against the rules police in social media. They truly drive me insane. For ten years, one of the arguments that continues to surface is whether or not you should connect with people you don’t know online. It surfaced again yesterday when I shared Dan Schawbel’s post, Why I Accept…
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Sales Enablement, Automation, and Performance
A Unique Business Card… er Chip
This afternoon, I had a great meeting with our business consultant Harry Howe and our business insurance agent, Joe Glaser. It was a great meeting because Joe and Harry are masters at dialing down all the nuances of risk and insurance into a concise meeting where they basically tell me what I should do and I trust them to get…
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Email Marketing & Automation
ToutApp: Sales Tracking, Templates and Analytics
For the large sales organization, outbound sales representatives have the unenviable position of having to communicate with piles of leads sometimes to connect with those one or two prospects that will convert. New marketing automation systems such as our sponsor Right On Interactive manage lead scoring and nurturing communications for the masses, but the sales staff still needs to produce…
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Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Starbucks: Designing The Perfect Mobile App
On my next radio show, I’ll be discussing the Starbucks Mobile application which garnered the 2012 Mobile Marketer of the Year Award. In my opinion, it’s truly a great mobile application that bridges the marketing gap between online and in-store purchasing. Features that make the app so successful Usability – the application has a primary navigation bar across the bottom…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Filter Out Your Social Noise with Cloze
If your inbox is as terrifying as mine, you find that key messages simply seem to fade away as the onslaught of new messages hit. I have come to terms with the fact that my social and email network has become unmanageable and I look forward to great tools that help me to filter and identify the connections that are…
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Marketing Infographics
Advertiser’s Guide to Mobile
Last week I spent some time with my parents and was pretty shocked when they showed me they both traded in their mobile phones for iPhones. While they were both fairly frustrated with learning how to use them, they told me that it was actually less expensive for the iPhone 4 than a typical mobile phone. Of course, the inside…
